Ayodele Adeyemi-Faboya
Partner
Banwo & Ighodalo
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Nigeria
Lawyers
Abimbola Akeredolu, SAN, FCIArb
Partner with Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading multidisciplinary Nigerian firm which provides first-class legal advisory services on corporate and commercial Nigerian law. Abimbola has been ranked as an “Elite Leading Lawyer” in Dispute Resolution in the Legal 500 EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) ratings for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 consecutively. She was also ranked as a Notable Practitioner in Dispute Resolution in the Chambers and Partners 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Editions.
Isa Alade
Isa Alade is a partner at Banwo & Ighodalo with fifteen (15) years of experience in providing legal advice to corporate organisations and private equity firms. He obtained his LL.B and LL.M degrees from the University of Lagos and was admitted into the Nigerian Bar in 2005. He is an alumnus of the International Law Institute – Washington (ILI) and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.His core areas of practice are Banking and Finance, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and FinTech.
Toyin Bashir
Toyin Bashir is a partner with Banwo & Ighodalo. She obtained her law degree from the University of Lagos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in January, 2001. She joined Banwo & Ighodalo in November 2005 and was admitted to the Firm’s partnership in January 2017.
Seyi Bella
Seyi Bella is a partner at Banwo & Ighodalo with fourteen (14) years of experience. Her core areas of practice are Banking and Finance, Project Finance, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Fintech.
Lekan Dairo
Senior Associate
Stella Duru
Stella is a Partner in Banwo &Ighodalo (B&I)’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group. She obtained her law degree from the University of Lagos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in January 2001; she joined B&I shortly afterwards and was admitted into the firm’s partnership in 2012. She is a consummate professional with excellent mastery of the entire value chain of energy projects and almost twenty (20) years of cognate experience advising on a broad range of transactions including Power, Infrastructure, Project Finance, Oil & Gas, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Commercial transactions within the energy sector.
Ken Etim
Ken is the Managing Partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading first-class multi-disciplinary law firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. Ken obtained his law degree from the University of Uyo, and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1991 and into the firm's partnership in 2000, and subsequently became Managing Partner in March 2012. Ken is recognized, and has been ranked as a world leading energy lawyer for the preceding fifteen (15) years. He has been involved in most of the firm’s numerous energy and natural resources transactions, as well as infrastructure projects. He is also a Notary Public for Nigeria.
Asue Ighodalo
Asue Ighodalo is a Founding Partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a foremost corporate commercial law firm in Nigeria that is consistently listed in the top tier of several leading Nigerian and international legal directories, publications and journals. He obtained his first degree in economics from the University of Ibadan, and a law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK; he was admitted into the Nigerian Bar in July 1985.
Azeezah Muse-Sadiq
Azeezah is a Partner in the firm’s Corporate, Securities & Finance Practice Group. This practice group is involved in general corporate law practice, mergers and acquisition, taxation, telecommunications, capital markets, project finance & corporate finance. Her core practice areas are Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Restructurings, Taxation, General Corporate Law and Competition Law; in all of which she has garnered over 15 years of hands-on experience.
Kehinde Ojuawo
Partner with Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading multidisciplinary Nigerian firm which provides first-class legal advisory services on corporate and commercial Nigerian law. Kehinde lead the team advising Greenville Oil and Gas Limited, in connection with the development of a mini liquefied natural gas project in Rumuiji, Rivers State for the purpose of supplying liquefied natural gas to the Nigerian domestic gas market via virtual pipelines. Kehinde is also co-leading the team advising the Board of Trustees, Ogoni Trust Fund, a body set up to manage and disburse the One Billion United States Dollars (US$1,000,000,000) Ogoni Trust Fund, which is to be applied towards the environmental rehabilitation of Ogoniland, Rivers State, Nigeria.Kehinde led the team advising the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (“NNPC”) and its subsidiaries on several novel and important transactions, including the proposed transition of its UJV arrangements with indigenous oil companies, into a fully-fledged IJV. Futhermore, Kehinde is currently co-leading the team advising the Bank of China, Oilserve-Oando-CFCHEC Consortium and Bentex-CPP Consortium in connection with the US$3,000,000,000 Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, a major gas infrastructure project in Nigeria designed to connect the pipeline networks in the eastern and western parts of Nigeria to the northern region, and will become the largest pipeline network in Nigeria upon completion.
Femi Olubanwo
Founding partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading full-service Nigerian law firm that provides first-class legal advice in most aspects of Nigerian corporate and commercial law.
Olumide Osundolire
Olumide is a Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and the Securities, Finance, Corporate and Commercial Practice Group of Banwo & Ighodalo, where he leads the firm’s Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Company Secretarial and Governance Advisory Services and Real Estate practices.
Ayotunde Owoigbe
Ayotunde Owoigbe is a partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a leading law firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja. She obtained her law degree from the University of Lagos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in January 2001; she joined B&I shortly afterwards and was admitted into the firm's partnership in 2010. Her core practice areas, spanning almost 20 years’ experience, are banking and finance, capital markets, M&A and project finance.She is consistently ranked as a leading Nigerian lawyer by Chambers, IFLR1000, WWL, The Legal 500 and World's Leading Women in Business Law.
Akindeji Oyebode
Akindeji s a Partner in the Firm’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group. He is licenced to practice in Nigeria and New York. Over his fourteen (14) years of practice, Akindeji has garnered considerable experience working on highly complex energy and project finance transactions.
Chinedum Umeche
Chinedum Umeche is a seasoned dispute resolution expert, with years of experience handling commercial litigation and arbitration matters for a wide spectrum of domestic and international clients across several industries including energy, financial services, FMCG and telecommunications. He joined the firm’s Litigation, Arbitration & ADR Practice Group in 2010 and rose through the ranks to become a Senior Associate in 2016. He was later appointed Team Leader in January 2017, a position he retained until his admission into partnership.